POETRY DISCUSSION PANEL
Place: Online at facebook.com/LibraryofVA or youtube.com/user/LibraryofVa
Cost: Free 
Virginia author and executive director of James Madison University's Furious Flower Poetry...

Please join us in person at the Library for a special evening of poetry with Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, who will read from her latest book, Playlist for the...

Join us for the sixty-ninth episode of Write America on Monday July 25th featuring Carlos Fonseca, Priya Jain and Rita Dove as they read and discuss their works- intimating how the deep divisions in...

Pierre JALBERT Crossings
COPLAND Sextet for clarinet, piano, and string quartet
Richard DANIELPOUR and Rita DOVE A Standing Witness (BSO co-commission)

Pre-concert talk with Richard Danielpour, Rita...

Rita Dove will be giving two talks at the 2022 Sun Valley Writers' Conference:

July 16, 2022 - A POETRY READING, 1:00 – 1:45 PM | Pavilion. To set the tone for your days in Sun Valley, join the...

Arts on the Hill is a recurring event on Carr's Hill featuring artists and scholars from our faculty and student body and visiting artists and scholars from around the globe. President Jim Ryan will...

In partnership with the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and as the closing event for the 2022 Virginia Festival of the Book, we present poets Victoria Chang (Obit) and Rita Dove (Playlist for the...

The poet laureate and the literary tastemaker share poems and stories new and old.   Rita Dove’s first new volume of poetry in over twelve years convenes a chorus that sings across decades to...

Join us for a conversation between poet Rita Dove and educator Melissa Alter Smith on the art and craft of poetry and its intersection with today’s world. 

A Q&A session with attendees will follow...

 

Event starts at 7:30 PM Pacific

Rita Dove is a celebrated poet, prose writer, editor, musician, and former Poet Laureate of the United States—the youngest to have served in the role. Known for...